Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]
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Next US energy boom could be wind power in the Gulf of Mexico
By Michael E. Webber, University of Texas at Austin and Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin | – With passage of the Inflation Reduction […]
Is Moral Clarity even Possible anymore in Donald Trump’s America?
By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Recent episodes of purposeful and accidental truth-telling brought to my mind the latest verbal lapse by George W. […]
As Last Coal Plant closes, Cheap Solar Power Rescues Hawaii, which has reached ~40% Renewables
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Veteran green energy journalist Julian Spector at Canary Media tells the story of how the last-minute opening this July of […]
Biden Calls on Syria to Return Journalist ‘Disappeared’ a Decade Ago
( Human Rights Watch ) – Last week, US President Joe Biden declared that the US knows “with certainty” that Tice has been held by […]
Digital Authoritarianism in Turkey
Written by Arzu Geybullayeva< | - Authoritarian regimes have long had a complicated relationship with media and communications technologies. The Unfreedom Monitor is a Global […]
How displaced Syrians effectively navigated ‘border frictions’ in Lebanon and Turkey
By Suzan Ilcan, University of Waterloo and Secil Dagtas, University of Waterloo | – The Syrian conflict began in early March 2011 on the heels […]
Why Fightin’ Joe Biden may be the most Consequential President in Forty Years
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Joe Biden has been easy for the pundit class to write off. He isn’t, unlike Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, […]
Taliban in Power – One Year On
By Amina Khan | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 15 August 2021, the world looked on with trepidation as the situation in […]
Faced with Extremism within its Ranks, US Military has clamped down on racist Speech, including Retweets and Likes
By Dwight Stirling, University of Southern California | – Less than a month after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Secretary of […]
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